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perpetually exercising the muscles used in 

 walking, which thence become so flexible, 

 that they are able to sit for a long while 

 cross-legged, without pain or inconvenience, 

 in a posture intolerable to us, who are 

 used to commodious seats. For my own 

 part, since I set out on my journey, I have 

 become able to walk four times as far as I 

 could at first. 



o. Animal food. It is observable that 



such of the creation as feed on vegetables, 



are of a more rigid, though strong, fibre ; 



witness the Stag, the Bull, &c.; while, on 



the contrary, carnivorous animals, as the 



Dog, Cat, Wolf, Lion, &c., are all more 



flexible. The tact and its cause are both 



evident. The Laplanders are altogether 



carnivorous. They have no vegetable food 



brought to their tables. They now and 



then indeed eat a raw stalk of Angelica, 



as we would eat an apple, and occasionally 



a few leaves of Sorrel ; but this, compared 



with the bulk of their food, is scarcely more 



than as one to a million. In spring they eat 



